[IPSM] Mohawks of Akwesasne protest the arming of border guards

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http://www.pacificfreepress.com/news/1/4152-legacy-of-mohawk-resistance-at-akwesasne-border.html


Next march: May 29, 2009


ARMED BORDER GUARDS AT AKWESASNE?
VERY VERY DANGEROUS!

03.05.2009 - Mohawk Nation News
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MNN. May 2, 2009. The behind the scenes dictators are slowly tightening the
screws. A boa constrictor starts by wrapping itself around you, gradually
starts to constrict, tightens almost without notice and then strangles you
until you’re dead. The plan is to hypnotize us into accepting this death
hold without resisting.

For the next month Mohawks of Akwesasne will be protesting colonial Canadian
border guards arming themselves with Beretta 9 mm handguns in the middle of
our community. They hope to start on June 1. Akwesasne is on both sides of
the foreign Canada-U.S. border and home to the whole community regardless of
this “imaginary line”. We never gave our consent for these carpet baggers to
carry weapons in our midst to protect their illegal extortion business.
Their actions constitute a violation of our law and international law.

All three band and tribal councils set up by Canada and the U.S. took part
in the rally, the Mohawk Council of Akwesasne (MCA), the St. Regis Mohawk
Tribe and the Mohawk Nation Council of Chiefs.

Chris Kealey of the Canada Border Services Agency said the guards are being
armed “for the protection of our officers because … they are left
vulnerable”. To what? The number of attacks against Mohawks has been
drastically increasing. Defensive conflicts by the Mohawks has always been
infrequent.

Kanatakon (St. Regis, Que.) District Chief Larry King believes the incidents
between the CBSA and members of Akwesasne are "too few and far between" to
justify the weapons.

We know we have to stop at the border. Kimberly Jacobs of Cornwall Island
said: "Some of the border guards are respectful, while others are
intimidating." Her friend, who crosses at least once a day, has been pulled
over six times in the last month for random inspection. A woman was strip
searched by border officers without a good reason. Without guns they can
already isolate us, lock us up, hold us for hours for no reason and almost
kill us. They accuse us of just about everything including “suspecting” us
of having drugs, guns and whatever. It’s scary when they take us to the back
of the shed. With guns, these power hungry anti-Mohawk lunatics will have
unquestioned power to intimidate, strip search and falsely charge us. After
investigations most of the bogus CBSA complaints against us are dropped.

The Akwesasne situation is being hyped up to justify arming their border
guards across Canada. With guns they can more easily intimidate and threaten
anyone, especially Indigenous they greatly dislike. Racial slurs by guards
are common.

"We don't feel it creates a safer environment, putting guns in their hands,"
said Cornwall Island (Kawehnoke) District Chief Wesley Benedict.

A letter was sent to Prime Minister Stephen Harper to have meetings with
Public Safety Minister Peter Van Loan and his predecessor Stockwell Day over
a year ago. There has been no response. We hear that the European settler
experience at the border is completely different. They are often waved
through without harassment.

Threatening, beating and jailing people are becoming common in the U.S. It’s
meant to create a climate of intimidation, fear and violence. It looks like
Canada doesn’t want to be distinct from the U.S. anymore. The police want
authority over people through force and threats. Why are guns essential for
the corportatist agents? For hundreds of years British Bobbies never had
guns. The crime rate was low. When they armed, crimes and dangerous
situations escalated. The level of fear was raised in both the police and
the public. The cops were no longer part of society and started to operate
under their own rules.

To condition people to be controlled by a police state, everyone has to be
harassed constantly. The cops have powers to do anything they want with
impunity. They divide people against each other.

Democracy and freedom are slowly disappearing. Few appear to be fighting
back. Many are fighting each other. It took the Germans about 15 years to
produce the police state, to condition people to accept totalitarian rule,
to be subdued and to have their spirit broken.

In the past there were two opposing forces at work, democracy against
totalitarianism. Today there is only one ideology, the new world order of
money, power and authority over everybody by a few.

The plan is to take over the human race, eliminate the weak and put a few
rich masters in control. The melt down of the world economy is giving them
the opportunity to carry out their agenda.

Politics, military, business, educational, professionals and governing
institutions have been taken over systematically piece by piece. It is being
done subtly through propaganda, books, entertainment, education, enticements
and rewards until everybody is sucked in. The disease goes inward. People
feel afraid, like we are being cornered and will soon be eliminated. We
don’t know what to do. We become defensive. We don’t trust anybody. We think
everybody is part of this conspiracy. Children are asked to spy and report
on their parents. Everybody is grasping at anything to find a way out.

As Louis Karonhiatajeh Hall warned that when we experience these strange
occurrences, “Don’t get pulled into it”. Don’t go to fortune tellers and
seers. The elite want us to be pulled into this bottomless abyss and to be
directed to unseen esoteric waters. They deceptively call themselves
ordained global guardians. They deliberately try to confuse us. Now they
want the susceptible, the messed up and the strong minds to be labeled
according to their red, green and amber new world order categories to be
dealt with accordingly. We have to look at everything with an analytical and
questioning mind according to the philosophy of the Indigenous people.
Indigenous, U.S. and Canadian people – everybody knows that guns at the
border are bad!

Kahentinetha MNN Mohawk Nation News, www.mohawknationnews.com
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